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#1

“God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.”
― Martin Luther

#2

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

tags: philosophy, science, search-for-meaning

814 likes

#3

“one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”
― Giacomo Casanova

tags: mistakes, timidity

141 likes

#4

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational

4892 likes

#5

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

7295 likes

#6

“Difficulty shows what men are.”
― Epictetus

42 likes

#7

“It is only the ignorant who despise education”
― Publilius Syrus

5 likes

#9

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: integrity, morality

2982 likes

#10

“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
― Montesquieu

tags: discontentment, happiness

172 likes

#11

“Do not be ashamed of help.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: fellowship, help, shame, supportiveness

55 likes

#12

“Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

218 likes

#13

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

6859 likes

#14

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”
― Stephen Hawking

859 likes

#15

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy

2637 likes

#16

“men cannot know each other till they have ‘eaten salt together’;”
― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

23 likes

#17

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth

2927 likes

#18

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success

23542 likes

#19

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: happiness

2524 likes

#20

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, philosophy

3983 likes

#21

“Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)”
― Seneca, Medea

tags: due-process, fairness, impartiality, justice

90 likes

#22

“Men exist for the sake of one another.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

49 likes

#23

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
― Washington Irving

2629 likes

#24

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

1729 likes

#25

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: change, education

6288 likes

#26

“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

tags: parenting, unconditional-love

835 likes

#27

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.”
― John Quincy Adams

tags: principle, vote

168 likes

#28

“Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
― Blaise Pascal

339 likes

#29

“The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.”
― James Madison

12 likes

#30

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

913 likes

#31

“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
― Francis Bacon

265 likes

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